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M50 Crash Frequency

  • 25-10-2012 12:02PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,669 ✭✭✭


    Thought I'd ask this question as I've only started commuting via the M50 a few months ago. As a result I'm not sure if it's "normal".

    I join the M50 at Finglas every weekday morning & exit at Dundrum. Since the schools & colleges went back there has been a huge increase in serious accidents causing huge delays. Since last Monday (9 days) traffic has been at a stand still 6 of those days as the result of an accident. Seems to usually be between Blanchardstown & The Red Cow.

    Question is what is this due to? Is it a case that the increases in volumes after the summer lull always leads to more accidents? Is it merely a statistical blip? Or is it simply a case of "chickens coming home to roost" as a result of the appalling driver behaviour discussed here almost daily?

    If its idiotic driver behaviour could it be the catalyst for actual Garda enforcement of the basic rules of the road on the M50?

    FWIW if anyone travels the Naas dual carriageway is this also the case?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    I notice that too.

    I do wonder how the north-siders do it, almost every morning there is a "delays on the M50 southbound at junction...."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,272 ✭✭✭✭Atomic Pineapple


    Was about to post a similar topic to this myself, I started commuting on the M50 myself only 8 weeks ago and the same thinking has been lingering in my head. I was on the M50 for over an hour this morning.

    In those 8 weeks of commuting I have seen more accidents than in my previous 12 years of driving which included 5 years of driving the entire country in a van for a building company.

    Every accident is almost identical, a pile up of 2/3 - 4 cars stuck into the back of each other, simple basic driving on a motorway would avoid this, it's clear people are not keeping their distance, observing the traffic around them and adjusting their speed correctly.

    I can't understand how in 2012 we still don't educate or test people on their ability to drive on a motorway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,451 ✭✭✭blastman


    I was just thinking this myself this morning as I queued on the flyover from the M1 on to the M50, wondering what the hell was going on this week as there was delays due to a crash or "incident" every morning....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,525 ✭✭✭ION08


    I started an identical thread a few months ago.

    Thank God I don't commute on the M50 anymore, its so Full of idiots it actually gets infuriating.

    Have a look

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=75753744


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32 Ian1986


    Your right it is down to basic bad driving, mainly tailgating and people driving in the wrong lane. I get on at ballymount heading north bound and it can nearly be impossible to merge into lane 1 sometimes. The next exit is red cow and because the queue can be long everyone getting off there is in lane one on top of one another as i'm trying to get out. The two exits are just to close together but if people just kept their distance you could still get out, but they don't!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    It's simple, Irish people cannot drive!

    I see a crash every single morning, and it's ALWAYS at the same locations


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 457 ✭✭mcbert


    Up until recently, I was driving M50 northside, northbound every morning. Traffic usually moved well, but looking across to the other side of the road - northsiders driving southbound - it was backed up very regularly! Tailbacks through an exit junction or two, at a standstill, maybe every week, maybe more than once a week. Glad I wasn't stuck in it!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 520 ✭✭✭beerbaron


    Tallon wrote: »
    It's simple, Irish people cannot drive!

    I see a crash every single morning, and it's ALWAYS at the same locations

    Where every morning ? What time every morning ? This could be life saving information, don't keep it to yourself ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    beerbaron wrote: »
    Where every morning ? What time every morning ? This could be life saving information, don't keep it to yourself ?
    The M50, The same 4-5 Junctions, every morning

    Lucan-Blanch
    Lucan Road at Woodies
    Finglas-Ballymun
    M1 at Swords

    Not to mention the breakdowns...

    Follow @M50Dublin, @LiveDrive , @AARoadWatch and look at their tweet history, clear pattern of crashes at the same junction every morning

    Not to mention me being stuck in most of them :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭cjt156


    Tallon wrote: »
    It's simple, Irish people cannot drive!

    Seeing as it seems to be M50 southbound traffic that crashes, like this morning, and a couple of times last week, I think the evidence is clear - Northsiders can't drive:P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,728 ✭✭✭✭R.O.R


    Leave earlier. Get on the M50 earlier and get to work earlier.

    I'm Southbound from the M1 to the Red Cow every morning from around 07.15 and you'll slow at the Lucan on ramp, but that's about all at that time of the morning.

    Do end up doing an hours OT for free, but it's much better to sit in the office and do something than inch along the M50.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    cjt156 wrote: »
    Seeing as it seems to be M50 southbound traffic that crashes, like this morning, and a couple of times last week, I think the evidence is clear - Northsiders can't drive:P
    It's in both directions...

    There is more crashes Southbound that Northbound, statistically, due to the fact that there's more Southbound than Northbound traffic in the morning!

    Same way it reverses in the evening


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    Tallon wrote: »
    It's simple, Irish people cannot drive!

    Correction Tallon.... over on the south side of the M50 we seem to get by fine without (for the most part!) crashing into each other every day.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,884 ✭✭✭spank_inferno


    Tallon wrote: »
    Follow @M50Dublin,

    I had a look at that feed.... its freaky the amount of incidents there!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Correction Tallon.... over on the south side of the M50 we seem to get by fine without (for the most part!) crashing into each other every day.
    No you don't!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    It's also worth checking this bad boy out in the mornings

    http://www.nratraffic.ie/traveltimes/default.asp?RegionId=0

    Watch for (H Heavy) in the mornings


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,944 ✭✭✭Tropheus


    There has been a high number of minor accidents recently that cause havoc at peak times. I would agree that it's bad driving and mainly tailgating. The amount of tailgating on Irish motorways is frightening.


  • Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I drive from Raheny to Sandyford Mon - Fri. I have given up on the M50 in the mornings. I now go over the east link bridge and around the bay.

    Its just too unreliable now, constant crashes leading to tailbacks. Hell even if there is a crash on the other side both sides will slowdown due to rubber neckers.

    On the way home i mostly head the M50, unless i see a tweet from AAroadwatch that there's been a knock.

    Its just poor driving standards mixed with high volumes in a rush to work.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 108 ✭✭johnson1


    I started using the m50 in febuary and got the eflow tag, thinking as I go from blanch to tallaght it would be much quicker.

    I stopped using it last month as I was more often than not stuck behind an accident.
    Now I go through town and it's actually quicker on average as I have yet to come across an accident in town. M50 is shocking, and I would agree that it certainly seems to be the north to south route that's the problem.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,253 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    Tallon wrote: »
    It's simple, Irish people cannot drive!

    I see a crash every single morning, and it's ALWAYS at the same locations

    Please let us know so we can avoid the area.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 817 ✭✭✭650Ginge


    There should be a massive penalty for anyone causing an crash on the m50. 10's of thousands of people are inconvenienced and very little punishment for it if any.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    I notice that too.

    I do wonder how the north-siders do it, almost every morning there is a "delays on the M50 southbound at junction...."
    Correction Tallon.... over on the south side of the M50 we seem to get by fine without (for the most part!) crashing into each other every day.

    That's a fine chip you have on your shoulder there.

    Most of the major junctions (N4 / N7 (to city West) / Dundrum / Leopardstown (Sandyford industrial estate etc) and M/N11) are south of the Liffey so the morning time would see a higher volume of traffic southbound. And I'm sure there are plenty of your beloved southsiders heading southbound (people living in Lucan / Palmerstown / Tallaght/ Firhouse and working in Sandyford / Dundrum etc). Add in to that people commuting in from Meath / Louth / NI etc opting to go around the city rather than through it, or are these all "north-siders" (sic) too?

    More traffic = higher likelihood of incidents.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Please let us know so we can avoid the area.

    Read the thread!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    cisk wrote: »
    I drive from Raheny to Sandyford Mon - Fri. I have given up on the M50 in the mornings. I now go over the east link bridge and around the bay.

    Its just too unreliable now, constant crashes leading to tailbacks. Hell even if there is a crash on the other side both sides will slowdown due to rubber neckers.

    On the way home i mostly head the M50, unless i see a tweet from AAroadwatch that there's been a knock.

    Its just poor driving standards mixed with high volumes in a rush to work.

    I do a very similar journey myself but i go on the m50 in the morning. What is the east link like these days? I used to do it before but the crawl along the coast road to clontarf killed me. What time do you leave at and how long does it take you if you dont mind me asking?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,612 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Been noticing an increase of incidents since the schools got back myself... I do Santry to Blanchardstown every morning.

    The thing that irritates me is that most of these incidents are utterly trivial fender benders. Reducing a 3 lane motorway to 2 lanes should not cause such havoc. If the rubber-neckers would just get on with things we'd see far less problems.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,441 ✭✭✭bladespin


    Definately seems a lot worse than normal over the past couple of weeks, no idea why but the M50 southbound at Blanch and Red cow are blackspots at the moment.
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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,697 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Im going to bullet point my thinking!
    • Its because of morons who sit in the far right overtaking lane, until the very last minute, so they need to brake to get across three lanes.
    • At the same time, you have people coming off the off ramp, and trying to navigate to the middle lane, so they can go around the queue of backed up cars getting onto the next on ramp.
    • You then have the other people who crawl along the middle lane causing carnage either side of them.
    • Couple this with the fact that there are alot of drivers who cannot drive correctly when its dark or anyway rainy, and its a recipe for disaster.


  • Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Beano wrote: »
    I do a very similar journey myself but i go on the m50 in the morning. What is the east link like these days? I used to do it before but the crawl along the coast road to clontarf killed me. What time do you leave at and how long does it take you if you dont mind me asking?


    It can be a bit ropey from castle avenue until you get onto Alfie byrne road. I do go a bit later than most tho, i would get to that point at about 9-9:10. Light traffic at that time. Takes me approx 40 mins nowadays.

    From 8-8:45 it can be busy alright along the coast, small stretch tho once you clear it your flying.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20 Floggers


    cjt156 wrote: »
    Seeing as it seems to be M50 southbound traffic that crashes, like this morning, and a couple of times last week, I think the evidence is clear - Northsiders can't drive:P

    And you'd think with their history of robbing cars etc etc.......:eek:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Essential Listening

    Apparently Dublin has the safest roads in Europe!


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